Book description
The House of Lords will never be the same.... Disinclined to watch her
language or moderate her manners, “Jack” Troutbeck-assisted by her old
friend Robert Amiss-plots vigorously with others to scupper an
anti-hunting bill of which she violently disapproves. But she hadn't
expected the cam-paign of intimidation mounted by the animal activists
and the attempt on the life of one of her allies. And now there are
scenes of horrifying carnage amongst the peers.... Dr Ruth Dudley
Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin, Ireland. Since she graduated
she has lived in England, where she has been a teacher, a Cambridge
postgraduate student, a marketing executive, a civil servant and,
finally, a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. An historian
and prize-winning biographer, her recent non-fiction includes the
authorized history of The Economist, a portrait of the British Foreign
Office and a book about the newspaper world of the mid-twentieth
century. She uses her knowledge of the British establishment in her
satirical crime novels: targets so far include the civil service,
gentlemen's clubs, Cambridge colleges, the House of Lords, the Church of
England, publishing, literary prizes and - always - political
correctness. She has three times been short-listed for awards from the
Crime Writers' Association. www. ruthdudleyedwards. com
